Posts Tagged ‘ Ubuntu ’
For some reason I had no sound in Firefox under Ubuntu 9.04 after upgrading from 8.04 and 8.10. In all other applications the sound worked without any problems. After some research I found that the package flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound fixes the issue. You can install it with the following command.
sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
Hope this helps someone out there.
Let’s install Xen under Ubuntu. The installation is very uncomplicated so start with installing the necessary packages.
sudo aptitude install xen-hypervisor xen-utils xen-tools linux-image-xen
After this step run update-grub to make sure that the hypervisor is added to menu.lst. The command will show some output.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found Xen hypervisor 3.1, kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-xen
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-server
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
Now it is time to restart the box to boot the hypervisor. There are a lot of different commands to reboot a Linux box. I prefer init 6. When the OS comes up without any problem, everything should be fine. You can approve if the right kernel is loaded by executing uname -a.
After the initial installation I change different things for my claims. Do not forget to update your system before the following steps. This can be done by executing the following commands:
aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade
aptitude install vim# alias ll='ls -l'
# alias la='ls -A'
# alias l='ls -CF'aptitude install mc traceroute lynx screenAlright, let’s start installing Ubuntu Linux on the server. You can find my hardware specs in previous post in German. First of all download the iso image from an Ubuntu mirror of your choice. I have got the image from the Link below:
After downloading the image burn it to a cd and boot the computer/server from it. Most of the time you can follow the instructions on the screen. I’ve changed the harddisk layout for my needs. Because I’m going to install Xen on the server, I decided to use the following partitioning:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1217 1459 1951897+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 1460 13617 97659135 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 13618 30515 135733185 83 Linux
During the package selection I choose only SSH-Server. Everything else will be installed after finishing the installation. So if everything is ready, reboot into your fresh installed Ubuntu Linux.
Mein Server hat endlich neue Hardware spendiert bekommen. Es handelt sich dabei leider auch nicht um komplett aktuelle Hardware, aber immerhin besser als die alte AMD-Möhre. Die Ausstattung sieht nun wie folgt aus:
Hoffen wir darauf, dass der Server schön stabil läuft. Als OS wird darauf ein 64Bit Ubuntu 7.10 zum Einsatz kommen. Die Installation werde ich in einem weiteren Post näher beschreiben.